“I know you have because I’m one of them,” Aislin smiled and booped his nose with a finger before wriggling out of his hold. Flirting could come later since it seemed her young friend was missing some facts. She took his hand in hers and led him back inside so they could sit and talk more freely. Of course they could have chatted telepathically and stayed out in the nice summer night but she was sometimes too expressive for that.
“Sit. Ask me questions because I bet you have them. But I’ll start with the obvious ones first just in case,” she stated as she kicked off her shoes, flopped on the couch, and pulled up her feet under her. “Nulls are a rare type of mage that actually scares mages. They get their name because they nullify magic. Because of that talent everyone wants to use them as protection against mages, even mages. Can you imagine a Family having a null when a mage bursts in and tries to toss a fireball? The null can pull that magic into their body and make it so the spell never existed.”
Aislin gave Jasper a moment to piece it all together before spelling it out for him anyway, “your friend probably wasn’t expecting Rafe to discover what he was and was understandably worried he was about to be kidnapped and used. But Rafe’s far more subtle than that. He probably started with gifts and left you two alone to show he wasn’t a current threat…” Aislin drifted off as she thought about what their sire would do. She’d been with him for roughly a century and had learned a lot but even working under him—in every sense of the meaning—didn’t mean she knew everything about the master. But she was confident he wouldn’t let a null that lived in his city slip away.
“Sit. Ask me questions because I bet you have them. But I’ll start with the obvious ones first just in case,” she stated as she kicked off her shoes, flopped on the couch, and pulled up her feet under her. “Nulls are a rare type of mage that actually scares mages. They get their name because they nullify magic. Because of that talent everyone wants to use them as protection against mages, even mages. Can you imagine a Family having a null when a mage bursts in and tries to toss a fireball? The null can pull that magic into their body and make it so the spell never existed.”
Aislin gave Jasper a moment to piece it all together before spelling it out for him anyway, “your friend probably wasn’t expecting Rafe to discover what he was and was understandably worried he was about to be kidnapped and used. But Rafe’s far more subtle than that. He probably started with gifts and left you two alone to show he wasn’t a current threat…” Aislin drifted off as she thought about what their sire would do. She’d been with him for roughly a century and had learned a lot but even working under him—in every sense of the meaning—didn’t mean she knew everything about the master. But she was confident he wouldn’t let a null that lived in his city slip away.
